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Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science

Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they’re right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry.

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[…] There is still an ongoing debate about who should be called a “nutritionist” and who should not, and the difference between a Nutritionist and a Dietitian. Clearly, some countries (North America and the UK) have been struggling with the number of unqualified people giving advice about health and nutrition under the claim that they were qualified nutritionists, some organisations even make it ironically easy to pass for a nutritionist, as demonstrated by Ben Goldacre in his TED talk. […]